{"id":629,"date":"2021-06-18T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/?p=629"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:57:01","slug":"italian-fascist-party-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/2021\/06\/18\/italian-fascist-party-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Fascist Party Headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This piece is a reproduction of the bizarre and visually striking display that adorned the headquarters of the Italian Fascist Party in Rome during a 1934 “Yes” or “No” referendum; Benito Mussolini\u2019s menacing visage surrounded by the word YES.\u00a0 The message had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSI\u201d is screenprinted on wood measuring 12 x 11 inches (30 x 27cm).  Mussolini\u2019s face is a hand painted resin cast of an original polymer clay sculpture.  The plaque will hang on 2 nails or anchored screws that are firmly embedded in the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first saw photographs of the Italian Fascist Party HQ, the first thing that came to mind was Big Brother from Orwell\u2019s masterpiece \u201c1984.\u201d I find the dystopian, sci-fi esque imagery so compelling I made it into a piece of wall art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This piece is a reproduction of the bizarre and visually striking display that adorned the headquarters of the Italian Fascist Party in Rome during a 1934 “Yes” or “No” referendum; Benito Mussolini\u2019s menacing visage surrounded by the word YES.\u00a0 The message had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. \u201cSI\u201d is screenprinted on wood measuring 12 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[139,24,22],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-various-and-sundry","tag-139","tag-italian-fascist-party","tag-mussolini"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sculptureisland.com\/si\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}